kit
[kaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“kit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,936) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,936
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-kit · kit · German
kit · rank #9,936 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,936
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Klagenfurt
Nearest frequency peer: Klagenfurt (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „kit“
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90,065 corpus weight
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90,064 corpus weight
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90,063 corpus weight
- Kontrast
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90,062 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kit“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kit“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kit is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "KW", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [kaɪ̯t]. Frequency #9,936 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kiten".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kit, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "KW", "KV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is kit, spelled K-I-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kiten
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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